Nurses’ Work Hours I have been a staff nurse in the emergency room for fourteen years. I have worked a variety of 8‚ 10‚ 12‚ and even 16 hour shifts. I currently am working 8 and 12-hour shifts on nights. Previously‚ I also worked some 12-hour day shifts. I personally have been struggling with working the 12-hour shifts. My commute to work is 1 hour one way and I have fallen asleep several times driving home from work. The last four hours of my shift I experience great
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The career was chosen is a R.N.‚ or registered nurse. A registered nurse has many different occupational specialties. Some of them are general duty nurses‚ occupational health nurses‚ office nurses‚ and private duty nurses‚ plus a few more. Registered nurses have the opportunity to work in many places such as hospitals‚ institutions‚ and medical offices. The jobs entail providing nursing service for patients in hospitals institutions‚ offices‚ and nursing care for on-duty workers if needed
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Qualities a nurse must posses to be a good leader can vary throughout the nursing community. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary the word leader is defined as “a person who has commanding authority or influence”(Webster). A person or in this case a nurse who has authority or influence has a great responsibility. A leader regardless of the meaning to each nurse has the same or similar fundamentals. Furthermore the qualities reflect the foundation of nursing. The foundation or fundamentals
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Mandatory Hospital Nurse-To Patient Ratio in the Healthcare Field (Professor/Instructor) November 07‚ 2011 Mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are a controversial topic in healthcare. In this practice‚ state laws are established that require a certain level of staffing within a particular unit. Organizations such as hospitals must balance income with expenditures‚ and nurses and patients may be affected by these decisions. Mandating ratios is one attempt at ensuring nurses’ workloads do not exceed
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profession that focuses on the care of pregnant women and the babies they give birth to. Obstetrics nurse deals with the care of women during pregnancy‚ childbirth and the time after the women’s pregnancy‚ as well as offer nursing care for women with health problems of or related to their reproductive system. Some obstetrics nurses may specialize in labor and delivery nurses. Obstetrics nurses may work in public health and preventive medicine administration. They can have private practices‚ work
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Nursing and nurses‚ the paragon and paramount of healthcare‚ the helping hand and the leading constant through ailment and illness‚ the men and women who care for those in need‚ and yet we push them to their limits and ask everything of them for the impossible. The amount of patients a nurse receives needs to be reduced to better improve level of care and safety for a patient. The need and or necessity for such action come from the very stressful environment that is nursing. Nurses become overworked
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NURS 130 September 22‚ 2010 All nurses have multiple duties that they must complete during their entire shift. The types of duties can vary during the day and on some days‚ they can be very overwhelming. This is especially true for a charge nurse. “Charge nurses are expected to lead staff while managing the work systems and processes on their units to ensure that the needs of patients are met” (‚ 2009). Upon observation‚ the charge nurse at a geriatric facility has many duties. They are in
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Most nurses would need to give patients’ medications‚ when they leave they need to give the patient & family member’s discharge instructions‚ & they would follow instructions from the doctors who also work in their field. Nurses would also sometimes sponge bathe them‚ give & replace their IV fluid‚ & they’d sometimes have to give them blood transfusions. Upcoming nurses would need to have taken 2 years of associate degree & nursing‚ or 4 years of BSN‚ bachelor’s degree in nursing. You also need to
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about ways to assist the new graduate nurse with transition-into practice issues. Preparing student nurses for the role transition from student to nurse who can responsibly provide high-quality and safe patient care is a difficult job. Nursing students usually don’t have the opportunity to take a full patient assignment before transitioning into practice; therefore‚ the job of transferring clinical knowledge to student nurses is often the responsibility of a nurse preceptor. A new graduate preceptorship
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of Americas Future Nurses” In discussions of health care Nurses are needed twenty-four hours a day seven days a week. There are many advantages and disadvantages in the health care field as a Nurse. The health care occupation of a Nurse has many benefits and it is not just a career but also something any health care professional can take pride in. Although one controversial issue the health care field faces today in America is the shortage of nursing staff. As a Nurse it can offer voluminous
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